1. Hugo Munsterberg. Film Formalism

A. In every respect the film play is further away from the physical reality than the drama, and in

every respect this greater distance from the physical world brings it nearer the mental world.

(Defining the Photoplay, p. 44)

B. The photoplay tells us the human story by overcoming the forms of the outer world, namely

space time and causality and by adjusting the events to the forms of the inner world, namely

attention, memory, imagination and emotion. (Defining the Photoplay, p. 44)

C. We annihilate beauty when we link the artistic creation with practical interests and transform

the spectator into a selfishly interested bystander. (Defining the Photoplay, p. 48)